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Distributed System Consistency Trade-offs
Analyze and document the trade-offs between strong consistency and eventual consistency in a high-throughput e-commerce platform.
📝 Prompt İçeriği
You are a senior solutions architect. Design a data persistence strategy for a global e-commerce platform that must handle 100,000 transactions per second. Compare the implications of using CP (Consistency and Partition tolerance) versus AP (Availability and Partition tolerance) systems. Specifically, explain the impact on inventory management during flash sales and provide a pseudocode solution for handling race conditions in a distributed environment.